skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. I'm not a heavy Windows user, only boot it from time to time to play some game or fiddle around in Photoshop.

On my 4th gen-equivalent Xeon I saw a noticeable increase in perceived snappiness. This wasn't even a fresh install, but an upgrade from win10 with a "patched" installer that would allow me to use my "unsupported" pc.

Even on a newer laptop it feels very snappy for most desktop interactions.

Windows 10 was a clear downgrade compared to 7, everything just felt laggy. I've never used 8 to be able to compare.

Now I'm not saying windows 11 is great, mind. There are still are a boatload of rough edges, especially around the new UI. It's just that "it's slow" is not one of the reasons why I'd never daily drive windows.
Average house price in 1983 in the US was $62k. Assuming he's in a lower col area, and isn't going top of the market, he could have bought 2-3 houses outright, or put down payments on a solid 10 homes. Then renting them out and paying mortgages, that would be very lucrative.

Assuming he did his "invest in houses" plan as he said.
One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people
It's valid. Engineer means the role requires applying math and sciences. There could be a Potato Farmer, and then a Potato Engineer that measures crops in time and space, solves growth optimization problems, and researches solutions for plagues, etc. Then there are Potato Scientists that would deal with classification, genetics and so on.

The problem is using it as a prestige tag without requiring the skills. The company is wasting resources if they do so.
You’re thinking of parallel numbers.
This is the main reason I haven't upgraded my headset that included a USB dongle.

I've been trying to use my Google pixel buds and it's the same garbage experience you're mentioning. Random disconnects, output/input device swapping, and if you're using MS Teams or a video game that controls the devices it's a nightmare...
In 2019 Musk claimed there would "for sure" be over a million Tesla robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

That was a lie.
Theory: A tested hypothesis that is supported by evidence.

Conspiracy: In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future. Criminal law in some countries or for some conspiracies may require that at least one overt act be undertaken in furtherance of that agreement, to constitute an offense.

So, a tested hypothesis supported by evidence of an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime.

And the english-speaking public has been brainwashed into thinking these words mean something completely different when combined.
>think about what would motivate one

to be blunt, I think just someone who thinks differently than you, clearly they do not think it's an absurd bill, that's what the whole piece is about...
> Elon Musk signed contracts claiming he would deliver this in the future?

False statements were made that induced consumers to sign contracts to purchase cars and the FSD add-on. This is fraud.

Musk doesn't have to personally sign your car's contract for that to be a thing, or your credit card APR would be unenforcable.
As with any tutor, this could (possibly) help beginners.
Great work! I'd love to start using the language model variant of your work. Do you know when/if it will be open sourced? I'd start using it today if it were that soon.
I'm making a bit of a comparison, since the above was a pretty general statement. Yes, literally, marketing is generally not regarded as contract offers... but the rationale for laws prohibiting false advertising is that the product delivered should be the product promised. Technically the difference between whether something would be breach of contract or false advertising or fraud is a very fine line dependent on the specifics.

My point was just to say that "future promises" are not something that can just be disregarded.
10/10 on UI asthetics.
There are actually ideas using crypto to provide proof of properties without a trusted entity having to know what the proof will be used for, and without the requester of the proof being able to learn more about the identity. E.g. (in french) https://linc.cnil.fr/demonstrateur-du-mecanisme-de-verificat...

Now i think it is still either a dangerous slope, or it will end up inefficient, because of credential sharing; the typical modern idea to avoid that is to require the user to have a locked smartphone, wich is quite an intrusive requirement.
I think the UB thing is at least arguable in some cases, certainly.

But I think the ISA extension thing is absolutely a good idea for the simple reason that if that ever changed you would be -screwed- and forcing people to Think Really Hard about their usage if ISA extensions is probably a net win anyway.

Possibly they should be in a second "bucket of scary stuff" with a different set of hazard stickers applied, but using unsafe for all of it makes sense from the POV of 'unsafe means I am voiding my warranty inside this block' rather than anything more specific.
Time well wasted :)
No. It just means that scientific purposes will have an additional tax paid to google. This will likely reduce use in academia but won't deter pharmaceutical companies.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be dense - do you mean you don’t trust AlphaFolds structures or NMRs?
Yes, but MariaDB, mostly DIY on localhost (various test & live VMs I manage).

Most painful? Replication with automatic failover could be easier to setup. Considering switching to MySQL 8.x for the new-ish innodb cluster tools (mysqlsh, mysql-router).

Why not Postgres? Familiarity, mostly using it for Drupal & Wordpress sites where MySQL is king. Besides the occasional poorly-designed query that eats memory and causes timeouts, MySQL rarely needs my attention.

Side note: I'm excited for https://github.com/mydumper/mydumper. Multi-threaded logical backups, 2 to 5 times faster than mysqldump. It's not super stable yet, so we haven't been relying on it for long term backups, but doing a "mydumper to grab a schema on live, rsync down to laptop, myloader to import" it's been a big time saver.
Stepping back, the high-order bit here is an ML method is beating physically-based methods for accurately predicting the world.

What happens when the best methods for computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, nuclear physics are all uninterpretable ML models? Does this decouple progress from our current understanding of the scientific process - moving to better and better models of the world without human-interpretable theories and mathematical models / explanations? Is that even iteratively sustainable in the way that scientific progress has proven to be?

Interesting times ahead.
LLM user -> Prompt Engineer
Sadly, we don't have such a training corpus of representative data. Fury is just a serialization framework, we can't assume any string distribution. I thought about scan the code of apache ofbiz, and use the domain objects in this project as the default corpus to carry a static huffman/zstd. But ofbiz may not be representative still.
For your second suggestion, I can't agree more. Actually Fury has already implemented this, we call it meta share mode. Fury will write such meta only once on a channel. And resend such meta if the channel got disconnected. But this is not easy to use and impose overhead to users. So we proposed meta encoding here.
Anyway, yours suggestions are very insightful. Thanks very much
It all goes to the creditors + interest.

> Although all debts will be paid in full, plus interest, nothing will be leftover for equity holders

> Depending on the type of claim they hold in the case, some creditors could recover as much as 142% of what they are owed. The vast majority of customers, however, will likely get 118% of what they had on the FTX platform the day the company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
This is basically what happened, the industry turned manager-heavy and expelled a lot of talent, replacing lifelong developers with bootcamp devs and other non-tech background people. It's kinda messed up because the lifelong developer types got called nerds growing up, had to learn what they know in the face of bullying and computers being very uncool, only to be basically replaced by those who made fun of them when it finally became "cool" and lucrative to be a developer.

Because it's all managers and no talent now, there's like an Interview Industrial Complex that emerged, where most teams spend the majority of time and energy just interviewing thousands of people and hiring/firing (via manufactured drama) while they never really build anything - it's all these managers know how to do because there are so few real developers left.

Some of the best developers I know of (of libs I use, etc.) outright refuse to work in the infantile conditions of the modern corporate setting anyway. The lucky ones have found other revenue streams and spend their coding energy on open source or personal ventures.

I talked to a young founder the other day - maybe 10 years younger than me, in his 20s - who said multiple times he was "retired", he kept waiting for some kind of validation on my face I guess but I just don't find it impressive. I lost respect actually, having heard that. In his mind he thinks he's a baller, in my mind he's a lazy egomaniac who knows 4 total things - I wouldn't even let this kid mow my lawn.

Smart, talented people just aren't valued anymore - it's more about prestige and authority now. But maybe not forever, they're certainly leaving themselves wide open at the advent of this LLM thing. Would love nothing more than the big tech ship to sink and get displaced by smaller, smarter companies.
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Sure… and, notwithstanding the apples to oranges comparison — since I can outswim or out stair climb you when you’re on a bike any day of the week — that means you’re demonstrating how fast a human can turn a crank that a human has connected to a wheel that a human has realized will transfer traction into forward momentum; nothing remotely superhuman has occurred, your maximum speed with that implement is still entirely limited by your very normal human capabilities.
> someone

Nobody important, just a congressional subcommittee tasked with investigating the pandemic. That's all.
Are you claiming that the ethnic composition of every country you listed hasn't changed dramatically over the last 25 years due to mass immigration from African and Middle Eastern countries?
> Certificates are not things that are centrally managed.

Of course they can be. That they aren't _necessarily_ centrally managed is a neat fact about the math, but has little bearing on what sort of system the political process will end up endorsing, and _that_ is what I'm saying has no chance of not being centrally managed.

The government will end up requiring that only Trusted Parties be permitted to handle loading the key material into Approved Devices, and that parties requiring age verification only permit use with Approved Devices. Mark my words, this is how it will hit the streets, if it ever does.
In The Netherlands the teletext system of the Dutch public broadcasting system does still exist and has a loyal following. It's also available on the web [1] and as a mobile app.

Even nowadays I still use it a lot myself for a quick catch up of the news. Some of the benefits:
- Since space is limited, the news stories are ultra short and to the point
- No ads
- No "related stories"
- No toxic comment sections
- No misleading 'thumbnails'

It doesn't take longer than a minute or two to catch up on the most important stories.

[1] https://teletekst-data.nos.nl/webplus?p=100
I wonder what the license for RoseTTAFold is. On github you have:

https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RoseTTAFold/blob/main/LICE...

But there's also:

https://files.ipd.uw.edu/pub/RoseTTAFold/Rosetta-DL_LICENSE....

Which is it?
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I think Postgres has more features, MySQL has more scalability. Citus exists for Postgres but seems to have a much smaller community compared to MySQL active active replication or Vitess/Planetscale. I would probably pick Postgres for personal projects, but potentially consider MySQL/Planetscale for something that needs to hold petabytes.
It was (is) just a seo tactic to have more keywords and better long tail traffic.
That is a fair counterpoint -- there is certainly a fair amount of padding going on.

However I worry about our culture of "just give me the main idea". It is very rare for someone to get as much out of the cliff notes as they would out of the full text. They may be able to recite the thesis, but that is not the same as _understanding_ what the author is trying to say.

Sometimes a book needs to cover the same topic from multiple angles just to force your brain to marinate in the ideas for a longer period of time. Yes, the thesis is repeated, but it is unlikely you fully understood it the first n-1 times.

I think there is something to be said for how most religions teach important texts. Not only are the summaries not good enough, but you engage with the same text over and over. You memorize it. You read related sections in topical groupings. You listen to sermons on multiple themes within the same passage.

Reading is not just about the ingestion of individual facts. You need to connect those facts to other ideas in your head (array them on a latticework [0]) and re-reading or a (seemingly) drawn-out explanation can be a good way increase the odds of making a connection.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9622640
I shall have a read through https://github.com/flowbase/flowbase later, thank you.
Or OpenFold, which is the more literal reproduction of AlphaFold 2: https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold
Looking at the supplementary material (section 2.5.4) for the AlphaFold 3 paper it reads to me like they still use NMR structures for training, but not for evaluating performance of the model.
Imagine a pro cycler with one of these
I got a Steam Deck last year and it really opened my eyes to how far along gaming on Linux has come. Even a crash-riddled game like Fallout: New Vegas runs more smoothly than it ever did in Windows.
Mitigating LLM Hallucinations via Conformal Abstention
Meh, while I think he has some misunderstandings about the role of CA's, I'm not sure you're doing any better: you can certainly use certificates in a decentralized manner; I use them every day for ssh. No third parties are involved at all.
Öhrli actually. It maddens me to no end that they pick words which contain umlauts and then leave them out.
My favourite is how what most people think of "apple store" in Poland the Macs that run sales will actually run windows with BootCamp and run some run of the mill POS/ERP software.
You determine a crystal structure of a known protein which does not previously have a known structure, and compare the prediction to the experimentally determined structure.

There is a biennial (biannual?) competition known as CASP where some new structures, not yet published, are used for testing predictions from a wide range of protein structure prediction (so, basically blind predictions which are then compared when the competition wraps up). AlphaFold beat all the competitors by a very wide margin (much larger than the regular rate of improvement in the competition), and within a couple years, the leading academic groups adopted the same techniques and caught up.

It was one of the most important and satisfying moments in structure prediction in the past two+ decades. The community was a bit skeptical but as it's been repeatedly tested, validated, and reproduced, people are generally of the opinion that DeepMind "solved" protein structure prediction (with some notable exceptions), and did so without having the solve the full "protein folding problem" (which is actually great news while also being somewhat depressing).
Investigating Space Utilization in Skyscrapers Designed with Prismatic Form
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested by Marine Special Operators
> If it's slower than a webview, I strongly suspect you're holding it wrong.

I sincerely hope you're right. But I was following the path as best I could, so I'm just not sure how it could have gone so wrong. I do 100% agree with your assessment of my flailing though. ;)

It wasn't the only source of frustration (the weather API I was using looked good, but is actually crap, and their support blew me off when I pointed out data inconsistencies, so that's ugh). So it was easy to discard. Back to weather prediction by induction.
> It is hilarious how much effort some poeple will go to to make money through scams

Ego, in a word. The type of personality that does this thinks they're smarter than everyone else and seek to prove it.

Working is for chumps like us.
I agree with you with the caveat that it's "only" most of America (it can vary by state and even whether you work for the local government or not).
By the way I feel the need to share that despite this conversation, somewhere between few and no Americans distinguish between "union" and "labor union". This is the first time I've seen the difference and I believe those who are making this point are downplaying the fact that in common language these are used entirely interchangeably.

Not saying I disagree or agree with their point, but that this rhetorical method of argument by definition doesn't match reality.
Half an hour is fine, it’s really the cumulative volume. If a kid has 7 classes and each gives half an hour of homework, that’s 3.5 hours of homework. Add on the classes and they’re “working” 11.5 hours a day or 57.5 hours per week, every week.

That would be concerning for adults, it’s well into burnout territory. Then we want to act surprised when kids don’t want to read on their own and only want to play video games, as if all us adults are working 60 hour weeks and then excited to keep doing our job in our free time.

My novel approach would be to cut out a bunch of shit that kids don’t strictly need and hope that gives them the time and freedom to explore those things on their own.

We do not need 12 years of history classes. They’re nice to know, but widely forgotten anyways. That could probably be cut to like 4; I do not and will never need to know about Sumerian burial rites.

We do not need most of the flowery English classes. Reading comprehension is important, identifying symbolism is not. No one has ever asked me to check if an email contains a motif.

Much of our science classes are generally useless; chemistry comes to mind. I have never, even once, used anything I learned in chemistry. I know too little to do anything practical with it, and yet it was a year long class.

The other option would be to just kill summer break and use that time for teaching instead of homework. I don’t care for that, though. In a decade we’ll be back to having homework and summer break isn’t going to come back.
The Glissotar, a continuous-pitch woodwind musical instrument [video]
I was addressing the crypto markets being up portion of the post.
AMD/Intel just call it an NPU.
Totally. I think the Nespressos actually make better coffee. I just wanted something that produced less plastic waste. The only waste outputs of this machine are spent grounds and water (well, and heat). And I can put in any whole beans I like (we just get ours from Trader Joe's), not limited to the Nescafe ecosystem.
That's the question: is there any calculated fraud here or was he just vastly overly optimistic?

... but even if there is no calculated fraud, I think some Tesla buyers are owed refunds or other compensation. If a company promises me X, I pay for it, and years later has not delivered X, eventually I need a refund.
I'm not saying it should be mandatory, but they would have to show mastery some other way. Whiteboard? Live coding? Project?

I think a side project opens up the opportunity to skip that for a project presentation. This is a lot more in line with real life as you would typically code and later present that work to others. You would defend it to some degree, why you made choice A vs choice B. If you created it, you'll be able to do that.

Doesn't need to be a huge thing. Just show you can do anything at all really at the junior level. Intermediates can show mastery in a framework with something with slightly more complexity than a "hello world".
Copyright is in dire need of reforms.

Those laws were mostly made before perfect digital copies, but also before digital enforcement and "licensing“ instead of ownership.
South by Southwest (SXSW) is coming to London
Offices are great for in person meetings. A group of people in a room with a whiteboard can discuss things much better than the same people on zoom. If you are just on zoom meetings all day then in person isn't useful at all.
alphafold has been shown to accurately predict some novel folds. The technique doesn't entirely depend on whole-domain homology.
This is a neat observation. Slightly terrifying, but still interesting. Seems like there will also be cases where we discover new theories through the uninterpretable models—much easier and faster to experiment endlessly with a computer.
Money won by definition is not lost so therefore I'm rich!
Have you given DuckDB a try? I'm using it to shuttle some hefty data between postgres and some parquet files on S3 and it's only a couple lines. Haven't noted any memory issues so far